Today Amazon has a monopoly control on eBook Publishing as is witnessed due to one fact, they control over 90 %
of eBooks sold today, that is a MONOPOLY over eBooks.
Not exact matches
Today, we spoke directly with Sony to get a sense
of the company's overall mentality when it comes to
selling ebooks.
Raleigh, North Carolina --(November 3, 2011)- Lulu.com, the leader in self - publishing, announced
today a new free pricing feature for
eBooks that enables authors to
sell their digital content to their readers with a price tag
of $ 0.00.
Amazon has started
selling its Kindle range
of ebook readers and tablets in India
today.
According to Bella Andre, author
of the New York Times and USA
Today bestselling LET ME BE THE ONE (The Sullivans # 6) and the upcoming COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER (The Sullivans # 7), due out this winter, «Cover art is one
of the most crucial elements for an
ebook to first, gain visibility, and second,
sell well.
Our highly scientific method looks at three separate book lists that you're likely to be choosing your next read from: The New York Times Best Sellers in
eBook Fiction; the New York Times Best Sellers In
eBook Nonfiction; and USA
Today's 100 Best -
Selling Books
of 2011.
Once again, the USA
Today top 50 list for the week ended February 13, 2011 shows a healthy representation
of titles for which the
ebook format is the highest -
selling format.
That's not quite the case with
today's
ebooks — though changes to the way used
ebooks are traded and
sold might someday endow those circuits and data with the romance
of old - fashioned books.
Authors
today have to do a lot
of self - promoting, or their books sit on the shelf or in an
ebook reader somewhere, and never
sell because no one knows about them.
Amazon is running a sale on some
of their popular best -
selling Kindle
ebooks today only as part
of their Gold Box Deal
of the Day.
Random House Children's Books, the publisher
of multi-award winning and best -
selling children's author Dr. Seuss» entire catalog
of children's content, announced
today that it would begin releasing most
of the author's forty - four books as
ebooks for young readers, starting with fifteen titles near the end
of this month.
Selling books has long been big business, and in
today's highly competitive publishing industry, with the increasing rise and popularity
of ebooks, it's no wonder.
Today Amazon is still
selling the print edition at a 42 % discount — but as
of Tuesday morning, there are now also
ebook editions available for every book in the series with nearly the same discount!
We spoke with Ben Lowinger, the Executive VP
of Copia,
today about his company's shift to educational institutions instead
of selling ebooks directly to end users.
According to unaudited figures issued by Amazon
today, since the start
of 2012 customers downloaded 114
ebooks for every 100 hardback and paperback book
sold on its site.
A release from
ebook developer Vook
today announced that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will now accommodate embedded videos in
ebooks, which is long - awaited news for authors who have until now not been able to promote and
sell their titles on one
of the largest retail platforms for
ebooks.
In addition, the company is working with some
of the best local booksellers in Australia, including Booktopia and Dymocks, who are
selling eBooks today, with QBD The Bookshop and The Co-op Bookshop coming soon.
Today Booktango announced that authors who publish by July 4, 2012 using Booktango's DIY Free
eBook Publishing Platform will keep the entirety of the sales on ebooks sold on Booktango.com for the life of the e
eBook Publishing Platform will keep the entirety
of the sales on
ebooks sold on Booktango.com for the life
of the
ebookebook.
Random House Children's Books, the publisher
of multi-award winning and best -
selling children's author Dr. Seuss» entire catalog
of children's content, announced
today that it would begin releasing most
of the author's forty - four books as
ebooks for young readers, starting with fifteen titles near the end
of this... [Read more...]
The PDF vs. EPUB / Mobi example is easy to understand and is less
of an issue
today because the major stores do not
sell PDF
eBooks.
Amazon is
selling eBooks like crazy... [but]
today's announcement just seems like a mercurial improvement, not the kind
of industry re-inventing moment that the iPad launch was.
The majority
of ebook readers
sold today are supported by Android and the majority
of ebooks read are on android devices.
Back on January 5 when USA
Today reported that 19
of the top 50 titles on its bestseller list had
sold more
ebook than print copies for the previous week, publishing industry insiders blamed Santa Claus and downplayed the significance.
The Amazon Kindle's position as one
of the top electronics gifts
of the 2010 holiday season is reaffirmed
today as Amazon notes that the Wi - Fi - only version
of its popular
eBook reader is currently
sold out.
One
of the trickiest aspects
today is acquiring rights to the
ebooks themselves so that you'll have a meaningful collection to
sell.
Digital comics distributor and app provider Graphicly announced
today that it is shifting its focus entirely from building and maintaining its own platform for
selling comics to the consumer to distributing a variety
of visually - based books and comics to
eBook platforms like Apple's iBooks, Amazon's Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook.
Penguin Random House
today announced a new unified, companywide terms
of sale (TOS) policy for
ebook licenses
sold to public, school, and other libraries working with approved
ebook vendors in the United States and Canada.
Today Staples announced that they will begin
selling Amazon's line
of Kindle
ebook readers and Kindle accessories at all
of their 1550 + retail locations in the US later this fall.
Inspiration is, truly, where you find it, and even though people back east probably can't even read this,
today I've got some thoughts on the book creation process, more on how to
sell ebooks, a warning about subsidy publishers, the limits
of ebook formatting, and being careful online.